1st Edition

Disruptive Digitalisation and Platforms Risks and Opportunities of the Great Transformation of Politics, Socio-economic Models, Work, and Education

288 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

288 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book provides an overview of the opportunities and risks of digitalisation and the platforms that embody it and constitute society's new infrastructure. From a management point of view – defined here as the steering of organised and finalised collective action – understanding this major socio-technical disruption is paramount. The book helps to comprehend its main players, such as the... Read more

General Introduction: Disruptive Digitalisation and Platforms

Part I: Digital capitalism: Introduction

Edoardo Mollona

Chapter 1.  Post-Privatisation and Corporate Political Responsibility: Negotiation of rights and duties in platform economy

Edoardo Mollona

Chapter 2.  The Birth of a Power: Amazon between infrastructurisation, data control and resistance

Niccolò Cuppini, Mattia Frapporti, and Maurilio Pirone

Chapter 3.  Oligopolistic platforms at the heart of digital disruption

Julienne Brabet, Lucy Taksa, and Corinne Vercher-Chaptal

Chapter 4. Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: A Virtue Ethics Approach

Francesco Vincenzo Giarmoleo, Marta Rocchi, and Ignacio Ferrero Munoz

Part II: Digitalised (human) activity between cooperation and exploitation

Julienne Brabet

Chapter 5. Algorithmic Management: invisible boss or ghost work?

Davide Arcidiacono and Laura Sartori

Chapter 6. Towards substantive platforms

Corinne Vercher-Chaptal and Philippe Eynaud

Chapter 7. Civic Crowdfunding as a digital value co-creation model for sustainable innovation

Francesco Gangi and Lucia Michela Daniele

Chapter 8. Public policies for Alternative platforms: The case of Barcelona

Vera Vidal

Part III: New digital sectors and business models

Mathias Béjean

Chapter 9. Synergising Data, AI, and Greentech Innovation for Climate Emergency: The French Ecolab Initiative

Thomas Cottinet

Chapter 10. Healthcare Practices in the Digital Revolution Era: Exploring a Collaborative Territorial Initiative in France

Robert Picard

Chapter 11. Micromobility and Artificial Intelligence Integration in European Urban Landscapes.

Angel Talamona

Chapter 12. Industry 4.0 & platforms: The new convergence

Davide Arcidiacono

Chapter 13. E-commerce and its dark side: Towards a new deal between humans, nature and technology

Mustafa Özbilgin and Cihat Erbi

Part IV: EdTech and Higher Education

Julienne Brabet

Chapter 14. Post-Pandemic Perseverance in Higher Education’s Dooming Digital Days: The Example of Business and Management Education

Andreas Kaplan

Chapter 15.  Can Online Higher Education Institutions close the educational gap in Italy? The case of Pegaso Digital University from a managerial perspective

Eugenio D'Angelo, Francesco Mirone, and Concetta Pironti

Chapter 16. Towards the Amazon University or the Open University?

Julienne Brabet

Biography

Mathias Béjean is full professor in strategy and innovation management at Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne, affiliated with the IRG research lab. Additionally, he holds a professorship at École polytechnique, where he teaches a course on public innovation and collaborates with the i3-CRG research lab.

Julienne Brabet is professor emeritus of management at the University of Paris Est Créteil where she is member of the IRG (Institut de Recherche en Gestion) and is fellow of EURAM (European Academy of Management).

Edoardo Mollona graduated cum laude in Strategic Management at Bocconi University in Milan (Italy) and received a PhD degree in Strategic Management/Decision Sciences at the London Business School. He is currently full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (DISI) at the University of Bologna, where he teaches Corporate Strategy and Business Ethics.

Corinne Vercher-Chaptal is full professor in Management Sciences at the University Sorbonne Paris Nord (USPN) and a member of the CEPN research laboratory (UMR CNRS 7234).